Guardiola praises ‘top manager’ Amorim with Man Utd looking to appoint Portuguese boss | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola says Manchester United will be getting a “top manager” if they hire Ruben Amorim but insists a manager alone cannot bring success to a club.

Sporting CP say United are interested in their boss and are willing to pay the release clause to bring him to Old Trafford.

And Guardiola believes Amorim has what it takes to manage his Man City side’s rivals, though says success is delivered not only because of a manager.

He said: “All I can talk about is I played twice against Ruben and his Sporting team and the pressure was really, really good.

“I spoke with Matheus Nunes who was his player and he spoke highly about him. This season he’s unbeaten or winning all the games in the Portuguese league, the Champions League they have the same points with us.

“I have the feeling, Man Utd, what I hear is thinking about him, because he’s a good manager.

“Man Utd want managers at that level. All the managers they’ve had in the last five, six, seven years, we cannot say they are not able to be at Man Utd. What’s going to happen, I don’t know.

“What happens here with my experience, doesn’t mean it happens with the other ones because the manager is the team, the club, the structure, the physios, the doctors, the players, it’s many things.

“What happened here, doesn’t mean it’s going to happen at other places.”